Next meeting: January 2025 (date to be determined) 10-11am
Join by Zoom – details will be available closer to the meeting date.

Leadership:

Olivia Thomas, MS, RDN, LDN Director of Nutrition Innovation and Implementation at Boston Medical Center (BMC)
Megan Sandel, MD Professor of Pediatrics at BU & Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health (SPH); Research Focus: housing and child health

Synopsis 5′
research talks & networking

December 6, 2024
10:00am – 12:00pm

Thank you for joining us for brunch in L303 and on Zoom!

Outline:

Speaker 1: Olivia Thomas, MS, RD, LDN, PhD student
Background and the Food is Medicine Movement 
Introduction to the Food and Nutrition Pre-ARC

Speaker 2Stacey Zawacki​, DrPH, RD, LD
Education Research 

Speaker 3: Kareem King, BA
Community-Based Participatory Research 

Speaker 4: Megan Sandel, MD
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/profile/megan-sandel/
Clinical Research 


The mission and extended vision of this new Pre-ARC is to: catalyze research to promote equitable food access, systems, and policies in partnership with historically marginalized people and drive sustainable impact that safeguards local communities’ health, well-being, and prosperity.
 

Seeking: Interest in joining the leadership team, and particularly from the DoM; The group is meeting by Zoom every third Friday.

The group is actively seeking participants and speakers for a Synopsis 5’.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Olivia Thomas.

Current Core Group:

Kelsey Egan, MD, MSC Research Focus: improving clinical-community integration in order to decrease inequities in health outcomes for children and families
Jessica Peters, RN, RD, LDN Outpatient Nutrition Manager, BMC
Dani Brooks, MPH Health Equity Research Manager
Richard Sheward, MPP Director of System Implementation Strategies, Children’s HealthWatch
Assistant Professor
Ana Poblacion, PhD, MSC Research Focus: pediatric nutrition and ending food insecurity in households with children through the increase in access to healthy foods
Renee Boynton Jarrett, MD, ScD Founding Director, Vital Village Community Engagement Network
Associate Professor
Christina Gago, PhD, MPH Research Focus: Food Security, Nutrition Assistance, Early Childhood Care & Education, Health Equity, Parenting, Health Behavior Interventions, Implementation Science
Rebecca Rudel, DrPH, MPH, RD Implementation scientist and evaluator; Research Focus: the intersection between clinical care and public health
Norma Gonzalez, MPH Focus: health equity and education equity for underserved populations

Current Advisors:

Pablo Buitron de la Vega
Naomi Hamburg
Ismail Samad
Barbara Corkey
Mallika Sabharwal
Jonathan Berz
David Opp
Latchman Hiralall